1,154 Quotes Regarding Success


You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
Jack Welch

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.
Miley Cyrus

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.
George Hickenlooper

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
Brenda Blethyn

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
Henry Louis Gates

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.
Henry Louis Gates

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
Tommy Lasorda

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
Ron Jaworski

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.
Julie Benz

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
Andy Grove

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
Jeanne Moreau

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
Francesca Annis

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles

Success breeds success.
Mia Hamm

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.
Jon Bon Jovi

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Thomas Hardy

Well, success does not mean doing well.
Shirley MacLaine

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.
Shirley MacLaine